Mike Diver is a British music journalist. He started his career at music website Drowned in Sound

Drowned in Sound

DrownedinSound.com or DiS is a UK based music webzine financed by artist management company Silentway . The site is an editorially independent music website.-History:...

, where he became editor, before moving on in 2008 to become editor of Clash

Clash (magazine)

Clash is a popular music and fashion magazine based in the United Kingdom. Its magazine title is published 12 times a year. It has a circulation of around 40,000....

magazine's website. He has contributed to several magazines including NME

NME

The New Musical Express is a popular music publication in the United Kingdom, published weekly since March 1952. It started as a music newspaper, and gradually moved toward a magazine format during the 1980s, changing from newsprint in 1998. It was the first British paper to include a singles...

and Rock Sound

Rock Sound

Rock Sound is a British magazine which champions rock music. The magazine aims at being more "underground" and less commercial, whilst also giving coverage to more well known acts.-History:...

.

Diver is currently album reviews editor for BBC Music

BBC Music

BBC Music is a team working in the department of Audio and Music Interactive at the BBC. Responsible for the BBC Music website - the portal site to music content across the BBC website....

 online. When working at Drowned in Sound in 2007, he was considered by BBC News

BBC News

BBC News is the department of the British Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs. The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well as online...

 as one of 150 "influential and impartial UK-based music critics and broadcasters". He contributed to the same (BBC Sound Of...) poll in 2010 and 2011.

Diver has his own blog, From Sinking. He has appeared as a pundit on the BBC Radio 1 Review Show, BBC 6 Music, BBC Radio 5 Live, BFBS and Amazing Radio, and has presented live shows for Diesel U Music.

External links

• Mike Diver at Twitter
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• From Sinking